Dune Awakening will let you choose between the Harkonnen and Arrakis factions, plus a third arriving after launch

Developer Funcom has confirmed that Dune Awakening will allow you to join guilds under two factions, as well as a third that hasn’t been revealed yet.

The awakening of the dunes, which was first revealed in 2022, is an MMO set in the world of Frank Herbert. Dune book series and is set to take players on a new journey when it launches on PC, PS5, and Xbox series X|S.

Although located in the world of DuneThe game takes place separately from the main story timeline and will put the player in the shoes of The Sleeper, who wakes up on the desert planet of Arrakis.

Arrakis, together with its natural resource, spice, constitutes an important part of primary production. Dune plot and is the sole reason why many factions are at war with each other in the universe.

In a recent interview with Eurogamercreative director and creative director of Funcom on The awakening of the dunes, Joel Bylos said factions would play a big role in core gameplay, explaining that once players get the lay of the land, they can create their guilds.

These guilds will sit under one of the game‘s two factions: Harkonnen and Arrakis – who have been at war for millennia – so players can decide which faction they would prefer to join. According to Bylos, Funcom also plans to add a third option later.

“There is a third faction that would like to get in,” Bylos said, “but that probably won’t happen before launch.”

Bylos adds that both factions are “heavily bogged down by politics,” meaning objectives won’t always be guild-based. “They’re faction-based, right?” he explained. “So it doesn’t matter if there are 50 guilds on the Harkonnen side, those 50 guilds are working toward the same goals.”

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